Summary
Prakhar Kumar is a full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience, currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon after roles at Akamai and SOCTR and an internship at Postman. He builds backends in Go and Node.js and crafts TypeScript + React frontends, pairing product-facing work with a strong interest in infrastructure engineering. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks, he automates provisioning and orchestration in AWS using scripts and tools like Ansible to streamline deployments. His background includes an MTech in Computer Science from IIIT Delhi and a BS in Computer Science from UPES, reflecting a solid academic foundation. Prakhar actively contributes to open-source projects and emphasizes pragmatic, reliable systems over cleverness for its own sake. Outside work he explores DevOps automation projects, often turning repetitive tasks into reusable infrastructure code.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.65/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.65/10 at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 8.77/10, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 8.77/10 at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi